In 2000, Knight and McQueen were commissioned to interview each other for i-D magazine. Filmed at London’s Hempel Hotel by Knight’s assistants, the conversation took place ahead of the launch of Knight and McQueen’s Angel project, a haunting 2001 sound and image installation, with exclusive Björk soundtrack that the pair filmed at La Beauté en Avignon. Only part of the footage survives, although all of the audio from the conversation remains intact.

In the last of our revealing chats with those who knew and worked with the late designer, Lou Stoppard discussed his work with American athlete, model and actress Aimee Mullins. In 1998, Lee McQueen selected her to appear on the cover of his guest-edited issue of Dazed & Confused, shot by Nick Knight. Off the back of this famous Fashion-able editorial, Mullins went on to model in the Alexander McQueen S/S 99 No.13 show, wearing a pair of prosthetic legs hand-carved from solid ash.

Our final interview with Knight unpicks the footage and the designer and photographer's creative relationship. Here, Knight discusses interviewing his friend and collaborator for i-D in 2000, the designer's legacy and his memories of their friendship.

We’re halfway through Unseen McQueen, our week-long project exploring and celebrating the creative collaborations of Nick Knight and Alexander ‘Lee’ McQueen. Each day from the 13 to 19 March, we’re releasing never-before-seen footage, dug up from Knight’s archives to time with the V&A’s Savage Beauty exhibition. While you wait for tomorrow’s content to be revealed, explore SHOWstudio’s back catalogue of projects with and about the late designer.

Interviewed in 2003, as part of our In Camera series, McQueen answered questions posed by global viewers, celebrities and friends in an often candid and sometimes outrageous one-on-one interview. His irreverence shines through as he responds to questions about Central Saint Martins; ‘a lot about hype and not much substance,’ whether fashion matters; ‘of course, does sex?,’ and when clothes will be computerised; ‘as soon as I figure out how to use a computer.’ McQueen was also the first person to be interviewed as part of our still ongoing In Fashion series.

A master of showmanship, McQueen filmed many of his spectacular catwalk presentations. You can watch highlights from shows such as S/S 99’s No 13 featuring a revolving Shalom Harlow sprayed in black and yellow paint by robots, the snow filled A/W 99 The Overlook and A/W 01’s eerie What A Merry Go Round in our Bellwether project. For the model’s perspective, watch Kate Moss talk about appearing as a hologram in the Alexander McQueen A/W 06 show, Karen Elson on her performative roles in S/S 01’s Voss and S/S 04’s Deliverance, and Erin O’Connor, again discussing walking in McQueen’s Voss ‘asylum’ in our rolling Subjective model interview series.

You can also watch the full length Spring/Summer 2010, Plato's Atlanis, McQueen's final collection before his death. The show was famously live streamed from Paris by SHOWstudio, see it here alongside another interview with the designer, the fashion film by Ruth Hogben that opened the show, and Nick Knight’s campaign imagery featuring Raquel Zimmerman.

Examine and recreate McQueen’s design genius with a downloadable pattern from his A/W 03 collection, donated as part of our Design Download series. A collision of Western Victoriana and Eastern traditional dress, the kimono-inspired jacket, like so much of McQueen’s work, references historical detailing whilst remaining quintessentially modern.

Finally, revisit Nick Knight's filmic tribute to the late designer, To Lee, With Love, Nick made in 2010. In Knight's own words; 'This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life. My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and the light contained within Lee, and within us all.'

We’re nearing the end of our week-long celebration of Nick Knight and Lee McQueen’s creative collaborations. The penultimate piece of footage gleaned from Knight’s archives shows the creation of an image from 1999 for the debut issue of Tina Brown’s Talk magazine. The final photograph follows the tradition of Knight and McQueen collaborations in terms of its extreme imagery and emotive concept. McQueen appears bound in chains and hanging from his own flesh in a padded cell, the themes of torment and captivity symbolising the designer’s unhappiness working as head designer at Givenchy. The short film gives a glimpse of the image-making process from beginning to end.

Marian Newman is the latest of McQueen’s collaborators to be interviewed about her relationship with the ground-breaking designer. The nail artist speaks about working on shows and projects including the Alexander McQueen S/S 10 Plato’s Atlantis show, Lee McQueen’s last. 'Every time I did something with him there was always a story with the nails, which was great - and it was unheard of in those days,' she says of the designer's attention to detail.

It’s Day 5 of our week-long journey through Nick Knight’s archive of projects created in collaboration with Lee McQueen. Each day, we’ve been revealing one previously unseen, newly edited piece of footage and today’s archive surprise originates from 1998.

Inspired by the Alexander McQueen A/W 98 Joan collection, Nick Knight shot an editorial for the April 1998 issue of The Face featuring Lee McQueen himself in character as Joan of Arc and model Shirley Mallmann on a bed of nails. The process of creating the extreme editorial and cover images was captured by Knight for his archive using handycams.

Sitting alongside the footage, in the latest in a series of interview with other individuals who collaborated with the designer, Lou Stoppard interviewed Nadja Swarovski about her relationship with the designer. The principle sponsors of Savage Beauty at the V&A, Swarovski provided support for many of McQueen’s shows and projects during his lifetime. Nadja Swarovski speaks about meeting Lee McQueen through Isabella Blow, her love of working with fashion designers and the ways McQueen worked with crystals.

As always, today’s newly revealed footage is contextualised by an interview with Knight himself, as he recalls shooting McQueen and Mallmann for the April 1998 The Face cover story.

Immerse yourself in our Unseen McQueen project so far, and stay tuned for more exclusive content, released daily until 19 March 2015.

Our Unseen McQueen series continues with footage from 2005. Lee McQueen and Nick Knight worked together to create the campaign imagery for Puma’s first collaboration with Alexander McQueen. Inspired by Lee McQueen’s passion for nature, the concept for the shoot surrounded the idea of a man morphing into a cat. The footage cuts from Lee McQueen explaining the process of creating the image to the shoot itself, featuring an athletic model and a live puma; ‘he wasn’t very co-operative, he just snarled a lot and sat on his arse’ noted McQueen of the animal. The film also shows the stages of laborious retouching that went into completing the photograph.

Interviewed by Lou Stoppard, Joseph Bennetttalks about working with the designer on his theatrical runway shows. A British production designer, Bennett designed every Alexander McQueen show since Spring/Summer 1999’s No 13. He also designed the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition at the Met in New York and the V&A in London.

Finally, in today’s interview with Nick Knight, the photographer recalls the same Puma shoot seen in our newly edited archive footage and the difficulty of trying to recreate the 'power of nature... with a slightly overweight puma in Park Royal Studios.'

Enjoy Day 4 of our Unseen McQueen series and expect the next installment at 11:00 GMT tomorrow, 17 March 2015.

Day 3 in our Unseen McQueen week brings to light photoshoot footage, recorded, as always by Nick Knight for his archive using handycams, of a shoot for the 20th edition of Visionaire, guest edited by Comme des Garçons. The resulting editorial featured Devon Aoki as a Manga heroine and Laura de Palma (shown in this footage) in the controversial metal ‘Bellmer’ harness worn by Debra Shaw in the Alexander McQueen S/S 97 La Poupee show. Watch the 1997 shoot (complete with a very nineties soundtrack).

It’s Day 2 of our week-long celebration of Lee McQueen and the legacy of his long creative collaboration with Nick Knight. The second item in our top secret line-up of footage from Knight’s archive captures the working progress behind Blade of Light, one of the photographers most famous works. The image features pieces from the Alexander McQueen S/S 04 Deliverance collection and was choreographed by Michael Clark. The behind-the-scenes film shows the group of celebrated creatives at work, posing the models and dancers around the gigantic perspex shape that formed Knight’s ‘blade of light’.

Explaining the footage further, an exclusive interview with dancer and choreographer Michael Clark sits alongside. Clark provided the choreography for the both the Alexander McQueen dance marathon inspired Deliverance show and Knight's subsequent Blade of Light image. He also opened the Amex-sponsored Black show in 2004 performing a dance with model Kate Moss.

It’s Day 1 of our long-awaited Unseen McQueen series. In conjunction with the record-breaking Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition, opening tomorrow, 14 March at the V&A, SHOWstudio celebrates Nick Knight’s collaborative relationship with the late Lee McQueen by releasing never-before-seen, newly-edited footage of interviews and photo-shoots from the photographer’s archive.

We begin our week-long McQueen takeover of the site with a 1998 interview with the designer. The footage shows a young Lee McQueen in conversation with Knight’s then first assistant, Sølve Sundsbø. The pair can be seen discussing Knight and McQueen's collaborative relationship and the creation of their first project together, a series of images for the 1996 Florence Biennale. ‘At the time that was happening I was starting to work for Givenchy and everything was going crazy.’ the designer said of the project. ‘I suppose that’s why one of the pictures I asked Nick to do was of my head exploding, because that’s how I felt.’ On working with Knight, he observed, ’when we work together, we think as one - usually what he was thinking I was also thinking.’

To accompany the previously unseen interview, SHOWstudio editor Lou Stoppard interviewedKaty England, who worked with McQueen as a stylist on his shows for 13 years. England speaks about how first she met the young designer, the collaborative environment of his studio and being busy backstage at some of his most iconic shows; ‘I often used to wish I could watch them but I was always backstage,’ she recalls.

Rounding off our first day of McQueen revelations, Knight also speaks to Stoppard about how he came to meet and work with McQueen as well as his long-term habit of filming his photo-shoots, and the making of the same 1996 Florence Biennale images.

Watch our first archive piece and the illuminating interviews, and stay tuned for day 2 of Unseen McQueen.

Collectively these works pay tribute to the various facets of McQueen's prolific craft driven and conceptual oeuvre and give a new account of his creations through the eyes of a range of artists. The selected looks were drawn mostly from the items chosen my McQueen creative director Sarah Burton to appear in Nick Knight's 2010 tribute film, To Lee, With Love, Nick; items she felt showed off his extraordinary talent best.

View each beautiful illustration now, and stay tuned; the original artworks will be available to purchase online soon at SHOWstudio Shop. The project sits alongside SHOWstudio's wider Unseen McQueen project that showcases previously unreleased photo-shoot footage and interviews from Nick Knight's archive.

With everyone riffing around deconstruction, individualism, army surplus, gender bending and lace (all tied up with string), then you'd be wise to check out the back catalogue of superstylist Caroline Baker.

Becoming a Body Without Organs, After Deleuze is a work based on a performance by Kevin Brennan, an artist currently studying at the Slade School of Fine Art. Kevin and I collaborated to create a series of images for Re-Edition Magazine based in Antwerp. You can see the whole series here.

As Brandelli himself explains; 'The idea was to arrange these as an installation and capture the image of a silhouette. The architectural nature of the sculptural layers building is a comment on how the thought process builds with layers of ideas.'

Remember our Design Download: J.W. Anderson competition? Launched as a special Christmas gift to viewers, the project saw J.W. Anderson offer up not one but two patterns for a leather top and balloon skirt from his acclaimed A/W 13 collection. SHOWstudio invited viewers to create their own J.W. Anderson pieces from the pattern and submit images of their garment to a competition.

Yesteday, 10 March, Venetia Scott visited the studio to talk about her life in fashion live on camera. On-demand footage of the stylist-turned-photographer's In Fashion conversation with Lou Stoppard is available to watch for a limited time only. Hear her discuss her 'anti-fashion' aesthetic, her early work at British Vogue, The Face and Nova magazines, her passion for 'stories rather than clothes', her long collaboration with Juergen Teller and the two characters that underpin all her shoots.